Kickables: tangibles for feet

Dominik Schmidt; Raf Ramakers; Esben Warming Pedersen; Johannes Jasper; Sven Köhler; Aileen Pohl; Hannes Rantzsch; Andreas Rau; Patrick Schmidt; Christoph Sterz; Yanina Yurchenko; Patrick Baudisch

doi:10.1145/2556288.2557016

Kickables: tangibles for feet

Dominik Schmidt, Raf Ramakers, Esben Warming Pedersen, Johannes Jasper, Sven Köhler, Aileen Pohl, Hannes Rantzsch, Andreas Rau, Patrick Schmidt, Christoph Sterz, Yanina Yurchenko, Patrick Baudisch

Department of Computer Science

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Abstract

We introduce the concept of tangibles that users manipulate with their feet. We call them kickables. Unlike traditional tangibles, kickables allow for very large interaction surfaces as kickables reside on the ground. The main benefit of kickables over other foot-based modalities (e.g., foot touch), is their strong affordance, which we validate in two user studies. This affordance makes kickables well-suited for walkup installations, such as tradeshows or museum exhibits. We present a custom design as well as five sets of standard kickables to help application designers create kickable applications faster. Each set supports multiple standard controls, such as push buttons, switches, dials, and sliders. In doing so, each set explores a different design principle, in particular different mechanical constraints. We demonstrate an implementation on our pressure-sensing floor.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems : CHI '14
Number of pages	10
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	2014
Pages	3143-3152
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-2473-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2556288.2557016
Publication status	Published - 2014
Event	SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2014 - Toronto, Canada Duration: 26 Apr 2014 → 1 May 2014

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Conference	SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2014
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Toronto
Period	26/04/2014 → 01/05/2014

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Schmidt, D., Ramakers, R., Pedersen, E. W., Jasper, J., Köhler, S., Pohl, A., Rantzsch, H., Rau, A., Schmidt, P., Sterz, C., Yurchenko, Y., & Baudisch, P. (2014). Kickables: tangibles for feet. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: CHI '14 (pp. 3143-3152). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2556288.2557016

Schmidt, D, Ramakers, R, Pedersen, EW, Jasper, J, Köhler, S, Pohl, A, Rantzsch, H, Rau, A, Schmidt, P, Sterz, C, Yurchenko, Y & Baudisch, P 2014, Kickables: tangibles for feet. in Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: CHI '14. Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 3143-3152, SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2014, Toronto, Canada, 26/04/2014. https://doi.org/10.1145/2556288.2557016

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